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During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile. The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community.....

Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of.Deep inside this 73-year-old lies a microprocessor - a tiny computer that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart. Microprocessors were invented by - Ted Hoff, along with a handful of visionary colleagues working at a young Silicon Valley start-up called Intel. This curious quirk of fate is not lost on Ted. "It's a nice feeling," he says. > Ted was recruited and became Intel employee number 12. In 1969, the company was approached by Busicom, a Japanese electronics maker, shopping around for new chips. It wanted something to power a new...

/begin my excerpts N. Korea's Miniaturization of Nuke Possible in Near Future 2010.06.25 20:55 An argument is advanced which says that N. Korea could achieve miniaturization of nuclear warhead in near future. There was a full hearing at Intelligence Committee of the National Assembly on June 25 where the Director of Defense Intelligence Agency, Hwang Won-dong, was present. When legislators asked whether N. Korea could attain the technical ability of miniaturizing nuclear warhead in a year or two, the agency replied, "We believe they can in near future," according to Assemblyman Choi Jae-sung, an executive member from Democratic Party. The...

Expert: NKorea has several nuclear warheads By HYUNG-JIN KIM /snip Pinkston said the communist nation has two underground nuclear warhead storage facilities near bases for its medium-range Rodong missiles, which are capable of striking Japan. He said he obtained the information from intelligence officials from a country or countries that he wouldn't identify. "Their assessment is that North Korea has deployed" and assembled "nuclear warheads for Rodong missiles, and there are two nuclear warhead storage facilities near Rodong bases," Pinkston told The Associated Press. He said it is unclear if Pyongyang has mastered technology to miniaturize the warheads and put...

Insects become fly-on-the-wall spies with tiny cameras, radio controls and microphonesBy FIONA MACRAE - More by this author » Last updated at 01:06am on 6th March 2008   It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - beetles, rats and sharks turned into cunning spies courtesy of a brain implant or two.  But such scenarios are fast moving from fantasy to fact, with laboratories around the world hatching a new breed of spy. Moths, beetles, rats, pigeons and sharks have been installed with electrodes, batteries and even video cameras in an attempt to create the ultimate spook. Scroll down for...